Masters Tricksters Buffoons: Tales of Renaissance Artists - Softcover

Land Jr., Dr. Norman Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1548615463 ISBN 13: 9781548615468

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Here, for the first time, is an anthology of stories about Italian Renaissance artists by Italian Renaissance authors, including Giovanni Boccaccio, Franco Sacchetti, Matteo Bandello and others. Giotto, Buffalmacco, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are some of the artists to appear in the core collection of twenty-six tales.

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About the Author

Norman E. Land is a native of Richmond, Virginia. For two years he attended the Virginia Military Institute on a football scholarship. Later, he enrolled in the Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University), where, in 1968, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. In 1974 he graduated from the University of Virginia, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in art history and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history, which subject he taught at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1974 until he retired in 2015. In 1992-1993 he was the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History in the Art Department at Memphis State University (now University of Memphis). He is the author of numerous publications, including The Viewer As Poet: The Renaissance Response to Art (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1548615463
• ISBN 13: 9781548615468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254